monildUtt, l.iii((>i>os!o>i im;>i,.l< \. and 

 often Daniptaa \ttitia fcfe much 



more abundant and eoiouitui Usari 



I have ev-r seen them in 'In.- I ACS 

 I'mk. while Htiwiititt dbvOrdiWi and 

 Astmlomti fUtdftiltlfttl do iii'l see.n 

 In occur west ol Loch Spun ;nid 

 Providence Ponds Thp dwarl pint. 

 Ilowcicd foim ol C «/rrm rfffPrtflWM 

 with downy gtcy foliage dues noi 

 appeat lo grow west ol Unison 

 Downs, Inn is lepluecd nc;ir Rosed. .It 

 Soulh by Ihc taller pale (lowered 

 lorm wnli snioolh. bright green 

 leaves Also hi Rosedale South is .he 

 only occurrence I have seen in ihc 

 he.ilhlaiid ol a beautiful glabrous 

 form of I'roshwihfiii driiiit uluiti 

 with long terminal leafless racemes 

 Oj large wide-open purple (lowers 

 The goldlields form '->! tflfe Roii.nh 

 MuUhnsh is hairy Witt) lc,i\ . • u 

 ! in. long anil small deep pnrpli- 

 two-lipped flowers, but the Rosedale 

 lorm is nearer to thai Tasmania!) 

 lorm with | to t in. leaves and lighter 

 purple } in. (lowers, veiy wide open 

 ml only slightly two -lipped. 



I he 3 lo $ ft. bushes amongst 2 

 m J ii hushes nf bright pink Bonmin 

 an&inonlfoliti and a mosaic of other 

 (lowers make the Rosedale South 

 heathland ouisi.indingly col. mi fill. 



Here too is, apart from a small 

 "island" north of Moe, the most 

 wcslern oeeurrencc of N'ouvrTwi' 

 jitncmi and n is also the western Jinul 

 of limsiiuui lu'iiHi/ihyllti. and (in these 

 hcalhlandsl of Hrmli\h»nu duph- 

 itoidi'.s and i uh'triX- t here is a paKh 

 of the chiefly Malice Crypto/idm 

 laiiHiiumt at Rosedale South, another 

 Malice species. Zicriu n-ionir, •< ucai 

 I onglord and Jlibbrtiiu vjfjtfitil (Mal- 

 ice and desert species) grows heiween 

 DuLson and Rosedale where it is 

 abundant. The ZU-riu is also a form 

 characteristic of Ihc area, with Unlet 

 leaves, and smaller paler flowers than 



m [he, north, with llowers cupped w 

 .ilniosl hooded instead of Willi ujit'lj 



in the Norih StrzcJecki beiimUroa i 



Ihl.bv, tu, fWClXVtM also leaches ID 

 western lirml neai Mcniinans deck 

 smilh-West nl Rosedale. bill // .i/, 7 y,„ 

 and 11. uciudaii\ JfttiM throughout Unj 

 whole ICltgth, UOVfiQ Ihtsiophvllu | 

 hxfcvB [KltlCC tl Orlfo n1 I laialgon South 

 (Mil it is probably widespread A mi „ 

 frlcottlt\ is common easl ol 1 oiuj. 

 ford, bill farther wvsi I know [| only 

 on one hill near Willnni' Souih, uhen. 

 there is also an isolated paicli in 

 1 nit i>pt>>>tm VolttHHS, 



( Oircii n llixu var undinulu grows 

 ihioiighoui these healhlan.ls. wuh ;m 

 especially line lorm .ii 1 ranlm, 

 South in the north and llcdlev in di< 

 south. Saw\t>lti ittmost.w-Hu jffl 

 tjo'npbotobiunt Imilolltim grow ncm 

 lim mandate, as western -islands" ql 

 castcin species, comparable lo the 

 Sonnhucci north ol Moe dnullt,, 

 fhryutpheti-a (^ur niiuukin) grow 

 al SpffTTn Whale Head, hm the 

 typical, much less hairy lorm is lairh 

 cotnmoii al I.onglord. RoM-dalc. nm 

 Tiaialgort South 7,-trtirhctu pdti\a « 

 common, but 1. tiliuiu and 7, fftyfj 

 jolia var. ridiacoidf^. althoutfh scal- 

 tercd through the heaths are com- 

 moner in the forests to the norih ami 

 south. 



Other species abundant in thh 

 heathland strip arc Ptftlilia Hnitntiu 

 PtfltQOntd jmtipnin,,, flmwWtf ,il>- 

 ,'rca I'idltitihut V'"""'- 0W" »'"'" 

 icriceti, 0 vlnhrmoia, KfltHtlai 

 prntlrulu. Huidvnbrrsiw Yiobwto. 

 CanW&tPttUt vohibih- (With C rr,'- 

 vineu and C calynnxii less com- 

 mon t. Asiraliiiiui liiiiivlitstcu, Kfono- 

 t«,;i uitparitt, SluckhoiiMU tttOffjtJipiH, 

 AftffftmtfjlM ptni umhi'nx and d un". 

 Iillle I'tirunlltcru inii tophvllil 



Four Hakea species. //. wn<r</ It 

 tiiicimi, H. pugeonifoimis and H 

 nodosa gtow in scattered patches .mi 1 



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